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HUMAN REPLICA
The documents were not meant to be seen.
They appear online without court transcripts, medical reports, internal emails. At first, people think it is fiction. Then they realize the details are too exact to be made up. The files describe a secret government program where human clones are created, trained, used, and discarded under the name of national security.
Mira Kassem is a journalist who lost her brother in what the military called a training accident. The autopsy report does not make sense. When she starts asking questions, she uncovers Project Echidna a system built not on cruelty, but on routine. As Mira releases more documents, she loses her marriage, her citizenship, and her safety. What keeps her going is the understanding that paperwork can be more dangerous than weapons.
Inside the program is Kade, known only as Subject K-19. He was raised inside a facility, tested from childhood, and trained to obey. His injuries are recorded as data. When he escapes, he learns that freedom is not simple. Every choice he makes still causes harm, and there is no clean way out...
Then there is Echo, a fourteen-year-old girl who h.as never been outside. She lives in a white room, folding paper cranes while doctors test whether her body is “viable.” She discovers that she is not the first version of herself. The girl who came before her failed. Echo learns that her testimony could expose everything but speaking may destroy the only life she knows.
A global court is formed to decide whether these clones are people or property. The hearings last ten days. Then powerful nations withdraw. The court collapses. No one is punished...
Human Replica is not about the end of the world. It is about what happens after when the truth is known, but nothing is fixed. It asks one if a person is created in a lab, who is responsible for what is done to them?
They appear online without court transcripts, medical reports, internal emails. At first, people think it is fiction. Then they realize the details are too exact to be made up. The files describe a secret government program where human clones are created, trained, used, and discarded under the name of national security.
Mira Kassem is a journalist who lost her brother in what the military called a training accident. The autopsy report does not make sense. When she starts asking questions, she uncovers Project Echidna a system built not on cruelty, but on routine. As Mira releases more documents, she loses her marriage, her citizenship, and her safety. What keeps her going is the understanding that paperwork can be more dangerous than weapons.
Inside the program is Kade, known only as Subject K-19. He was raised inside a facility, tested from childhood, and trained to obey. His injuries are recorded as data. When he escapes, he learns that freedom is not simple. Every choice he makes still causes harm, and there is no clean way out...
Then there is Echo, a fourteen-year-old girl who h.as never been outside. She lives in a white room, folding paper cranes while doctors test whether her body is “viable.” She discovers that she is not the first version of herself. The girl who came before her failed. Echo learns that her testimony could expose everything but speaking may destroy the only life she knows.
A global court is formed to decide whether these clones are people or property. The hearings last ten days. Then powerful nations withdraw. The court collapses. No one is punished...
Human Replica is not about the end of the world. It is about what happens after when the truth is known, but nothing is fixed. It asks one if a person is created in a lab, who is responsible for what is done to them?
482 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 28, 2025
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January 11, 2026
It’s not a fast read & it makes you think, makes you uncomfortable in a way that’s hard to fully understand. You finish it and start wondering: would I want to live in a world where I’m guaranteed to be good, but I never get to choose to be good? Is peace worth it if there’s no freedom left?
Also, huge respect to the author for self-publishing something this polished. The design, the paper, everything feels intentional. You can tell a lot of love went into it...
Yeah... 5 stars. Easily one of the best things I’ve read in the last couple years...
Also, huge respect to the author for self-publishing something this polished. The design, the paper, everything feels intentional. You can tell a lot of love went into it...
Yeah... 5 stars. Easily one of the best things I’ve read in the last couple years...
January 9, 2026
The story is future understanding of where humanity has already ended. Not with a bang, not with war or climate collapse. It ended quietly, with a correction. The most interesting thing about this book is that the author didn't want to warn us, the author wants to give an idea of what is most likely going to happen.
January 10, 2026
Huge props to Ashwajit for pulling this off as an indie author. You can tell it’s definitely a personal dedication about chasing the impossible and failing without shame hits different after reading the whole thing.
If you’re looking for something that’ll make you stare at the wall for a while afterward, pick up *Human Replica*. It’s special.
January 10, 2026
Human Replica is a beautifully written novel that talks about what comes after destruction of humanity. It sounds like utopia until you realise choice, struggle, and even the meaning of goodness have vanished with it. Written with quiet restraint and deep sorrow, this is thoughtful, philosophical fiction that is making me think more read about the real side of humanity
January 9, 2026
I don’t know, man. It’s one of those books that doesn’t give you easy answers. I loved it, even though it left me feeling a little hollow. If you’re into thoughtful sci-fi stuff like Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go or Huxley you need to pick this up.
January 12, 2026
The storyline, the world-building, the unique writing style, and the passion-filled characters and their action objectives... AMAZING!!! Reading this book was quite an experience, something I probably won't stop thinking about for weeks...
January 9, 2026
Loved the awesome
Story and thrilling experience 💥
Story and thrilling experience 💥
January 9, 2026
Elegant writing, deep themes on morality, and a future that feels like some or other day we are going to move in it.
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